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>>nickru+(OP)
What an unbelievable turn of events! To the outside observer, OpenAI is one of the most successful, well-oiled machines, shipping nearly weekly and doing an unbelievably good job marketing itself. Clearly, there's a lot of turmoil going on behind the scenes.

>>lexand+r4
And Sam was the face of AI to the general public, which makes these moves all the more perplexing.

>>soderf+Ub
I think you're likely vastly overestimating the amount of people in the general public who have any idea who Sam is at all.

>>cthalu+vi
Just look at how this news is doing on reddit (a service i conflate a little more with the general public than hacker news which learns towards silicon valley technology) and you can easily see the truth of your statement.